Re:The User Always Loses
by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2020 @09:30AM
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I'd say either Blogger or Livejournal was the coming of age for blogging, the Iraq War had nothing to do with that, those things just happened around the same time without any direct connection between the two. The vast majority of blogs had totally different content.
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Yeah, large-scale blogging was part of Web 2.0/read-write web which came into being around the time that it became much easier for "ordinary people" to publish on the Web but prior to the real social media wave of Facebook/Twitter/etc.
The timing lines up fairly well with Gulf War II but I would personally never have drawn a connection.